(Archive) Advertising District / Mysterious Waters

The newest addition in the SeaWorld family is a small, independent park based in the highly completive district of Southern California called “Mysterious Waters”. The park which was formed by SeaWorld to help promote the importance of our water through teaching history, myths, and conservation is displayed beautifully through the help of Holmes & Narver, Scenery West, AVG Inc. and of course Projex International who helped keep everything together. A complete list of companies that were involved in this massive project can be found inside the park brochure which will be out soon.


picture of the entrance area to Mysterious Waters

The park itself was the brainchild of Epic Productions which specializes in theme park designing and ride fabrication. Many new applications to the process of theme park designing is evident in the park including extensive research on mythology and the oceans themselves. New building techniques have also been applied and can be seen in the premier ride “The Lost Island” which is based off of “Escape from Atlantis” in SeaWorld Orlando. New uses for building rocks and rock formations was used extensively in the first B&M Dark Ride “Scylla & Charybdis” designed by Epic Productions in conjunction with Bolliger & Mabillard and John Wardly, the designer of Nemesis, Oblivion and AIR all situated in Alton Towers.

The entire park consist of heavily themed areas based off of Ocean Mythology including Atlantis, the Odyssey, and Jason & The Argonauts, along with recreations of important ocean sites such as the Marinara Trench, the Caribbean and the Reefs of Australia. There are an estimated total of 20 to 30 rides in the park including three roller coasters, “The Lost Island” a gentle water coaster that ends in high thrills.


Photo of the completed Splashdown area of "The Lost Island

“The Lost Island” is based off of the story of Atlantis first originated by Homer during the Greek Times. The ride travels through the glory of Atlantis but then starts to show its demise. Through bad kings, natural disasters, and wrath of the gods you narrowly avoid the lightning bolts of Zeus only to be flung down an eight-story drop into 200,000 gallons of water creating tidal waves that ultimately plunge the island into the sea, the rest of the journey consist of harrowing escapes of falling rock and flying around the island hoping to make it back to safety.


Photo of ride testing for "Syclla & Charybdis" (coming out of vertical drop)

The second coaster ride is the first B&M Dark ride that ends in excitement and speed. The story of the ride is based off of Homers “The Odyssey” in which Odysseus and his crew go on many adventures. One particular one is the adventure of Scylla & Charybdis in which the crew loses men when they met Scylla, a hundred-headed creature that snatches crew members off of the ship. Only to then fall vertical into a giant whirlpool that is really the mouth of a creature named Charybdis. After narrowly missing Charybdis giant mouth they escape and rush back home. The story is told in great detail throughout the ride with the use of on-board speakers and amazing sound effects. The 90ft Vertical Drop is the highlight of the ride and zooming through twists and turns at the end…


An amazing pic that really shows the speed of this coaster

Looks pretty nice, but I think those rocks need some sprucing up. They're too boring. Also, the entrance is a bit boring, for an entrance, but who am I to talk? ;-)

Nice job!

Looks great. That whirlpool especially is great theming for a vertical drop coaster. Very creative. All of the rock theming looks good although I hope the whole park isn't rocky like that. Nice flower/bush combination in the first screen and nice color choices throughout. I like the colorful architecture in the Atlantis screen but the small red building looks a little too simplistic. If you're going for a ruined temple look I think you should incorporate more columns into your buildings and maybe some discoloration and some jagged edges. I also like the sparse placement of bushes but the Atlantis picture could use a little more. Maybe it isn't finished or something. Overall though, the park looks mighty impressive.

Mysterious Waters...Waters of the Past...kind of mysteriously interesting, eh? Just kidding, lol, the pics look good besides the wretched custom water scenery, get rid of those and it will look very nice!

~Prince Ashitaka~

I really love it, this is the kind of work that makes me want to play Rct2. You obviously know your image editing well because that makes such a huge effect on the screens. I love every one of them, they all have the same nice atmosphere to them.

Great work, you popped up outa no mans land.

About the Atlantis ride, I was going for the "bare and desolete" look of destruction, but I will prob add some foliage since everyone says it will help.

As for the custom water scenery, what do u mean Prince?

I have based most of the park around that so it ain't change......

Here are some screens of the entrance area......





-RCTyrant

I really like it, but yes, the custom water scenery looks quite ugly, and I wouldn't use it, but then again, it is starting to fit the look of your park.

Your archy is really nice. Its not boring and its varied. Your use of foliage is up there with the best for RCT2. All in all its looking great. Just keep chipping away at it.

Great stuff. Thrilling even.

Wow, awesome stuff.

I agree. The water work is very solid and fits perfectly, and the editting of the B&M dive machine w/ blurs adds a great touch. The architecture is pretty solid too, though not tongue-dropping.

Keep up the great work!

I must admit, this is what an advertising campaign should be. Not too long, but very in depth, with relevant pictures. I'm loving that first screen, and the vert looks amazing. Keep it up.

Looks very good.

Have you ever finished Universal Studios Port Of Carthage? If not, FINISH IT!!

This iw hy i rated you when you were re-creating alton towers !!

I really like the screens and leave the rocks as they are, i think their fine !!

Wow...another 2 jaw dropping screens there. What you have done so far in this park looks amazing, the architecture in those 2 screens just looks perfect. If there were an Rct2 park that makes me want to play Rct2, it would be this park for sure. Keep up that atmosphere because it kicks ass seriously.

damn. this is looking awesome.

im not completely sure of the water custom scenery, but the way you used them definitely seem fitting. the archy very well done, love the way the normal plant looks so tropical with that other thing.. you should shrubberize the rocks a bit tho.

overall, it looks magnificent

Woo hoo This parks looking awesome every screen I like.

I personally like the use of the custom water scenery I just recently downloaded that my self its very cool and you have used it well.

I really like the entrance area aswell the buildings look great and have a very nice colour scheme.

Keep up the amazing work.

Thanks for the replys so far

These new screens are a couple days old but I haven't changed the area around them too much....

I will continue with the storyline and some newer pics by the weekend....

This pic is another building in the entrance area, the archway in the back is sorta like the "Gateway" to the park, upon entering this you see the giant mountian that houses The Lost Island....



The second one is the inner part of the entrance, where most of the crashing waves go on, more of an in depth look at the way I am using the SOB Trainer in the park (no hacked rides though) by putting plants down and building trees in the middle of em'.



Hope u like em'!

New update by the weekend

-RCTyrant

I think the pictures are looking wonderful its just the water thats rolling against the rocks looks like something blurred in paint, I'll send you a check of money to change it...not really...

~Prince Ashitaka~

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awesomeness.

i´d change the chinese roofing tho, and that left building (second to last screen) is a little small.